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Canada's Energy Future: Scenarios for Supply and Demand to 2025
Access the report, Canada's Energy Future: Scenarios for Supply and Demand to 2025, which addresses forces, uncertainties and key issues affecting energy supply and demand in Canada.
Bioenergy Research at the Canadian Forest Service
Discover the ways that biomass, plant material that is the product of photosynthesis, can be used as a fuel to supply heat and electricity.
Canadian Upstream Petroleum Industry
Link to information about the upstream petroleum industry, which includes all activities that find, produce, and process oil and natural gas, including the treatment of liquid petroleum gas, condensates, crude oil, heavy oil, and crude bitumen.
Electric Power
Learn about the electricity industry, including activities that involve the production, transmission and distribution of electricity, through methods such as thermal, hydro, nuclear and wind generation.
Electric Power: A Canadian Specialty
Learn how electricity has become a cornerstone of the Canadian economy and Canadian life.
Electricity Resources
Access information about the Electricity Resources Branch, organized into three divisions that all interface with the electricity sector in Canada.
Gas Hydrates
Uses studies on the west coast of Vancouver Island as an example.
Gas Hydrates in Canada’s North
Find out how scientists discovered they could extract methane hydrate, a clean-burning gas, from its source in an efficient, economic way (text and video).
Hydroelectric power generation
Discover how hydroelectric power, the principal source of electricity in Canada, is produced by the force of falling water.
ManureNet
Find information about manure, including environmental issues, manure treatment and odour management.
Natural Gas Division
Read about the Natural Gas Division, which provides expert technical, regulatory, policy and economic information and advice on natural gas issues to the Minister of Natural Resources and the federal government to ensure the Canadian public interest.
Oil Division
Access information on the Oil Division, which provides expert policy advice to the Minister of Natural Resources, and others in the Government of Canada, on matters affecting Canada's oil economy.
Renewable Energy Industry
Access a helpful summary of renewable energy information, sorted by type of renewable energy - wind, solar, bioenergy, small-scale hydro, geothermal and ocean - and also by companies involved in the industry.
Sustaining Energy Resources
Read about the Energy Sector's role concerning Canada's energy resources – to support good public policy decision-making and regulation of Canada's energy industries.
Targeted Geoscience Initiative
Find out how this initiative stimulates sustainable economic development across Canada by increasing the level and effectiveness of private sector exploration for energy and mineral resources.
Technologies Turn Manure into Fertilizer, Energy and Water
Read about a program created to reduce greenhouse gas emissions produced by livestock.
Vehicle Fuels - Biodiesel
Learn about biodiesel, an alternative to diesel fuel that is made from vegetable oils, waste oils or animal fats. It combusts better than conventional diesel and produces fewer greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to climate change.
Vehicle Fuels - Ethanol
Find information about ethanol. When processed from its liquid form into fuel ethanol, it burns more completely than gasoline, reducing greenhouse gas emissions.